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This summer, my friend and I had a pretty pointless roadtrip thru upstate NY (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse) to see minor league baseball games, just something to do...he had just bought UTH, and for a lot of the trip it was spinning...On she didn't know and everytime you go i'd sing the gord lyrics with him throwing in, for example, Paul's 'the barrel was loaded' on SDK...whenever I hear that album, and more specifically those two songs, I'm reminded of this past summer and our pointless roadtrip...stupidest fun I've had in years.

DFN = The annual winter angst and depression.

Almost all the albums remind me of summers...the releaes dates usually coincide with the hopes that this summer witll be better than the last.

kidswirl Wrote:Almost all the albums remind me of summers...the releaes dates usually coincide with the hopes that this summer witll be better than the last.

Me Too. Nothing like those "every second summer" releases. It's worth looking forward to, and it always seems like the albums are built for an early summer escape to the Northlands: be it driving there, arriving there, relaxing there, or reluctantly leaving there.

Nautical: Reminds me of the only girl I ever really loved, and how I totally f*cked the relationship, and now regret. Nails on the hull, totally. Fully Completely for the same reasons.

Courage: The human tragedy consists in the necessity of living with the consequences under pressure..... Now that I am nearly 30 I find this extraordinarily true in many circumstances; relationships, college classes, jobs, etc.

let's see...

for me it all started with Up To Here, i got it by fluke for Christmas one year, originally i was supposed to get R.E.M.-Monster, but i had already recieved it as a present from my dad, so when i opened my present from my aunt and saw it was a Monster disc too, she told me to switch with my cousin, and i opened his present and low and behold it was Up To Here ...to quote RickMercer "I think that went well." :lol:

next i got FC, after my uncle/godfather passed away, he had a massive cd collection, so we had an nhl style draft for his cd's haha,i belive it was my 2nd or 3rd round pick, number 1 was U2-Live Under A Blod Red Sky, and then it was either FC or Pink Floyd-Animals. Anywho, i'm sure glad i got it, because it is definately my favourite Hip cd of all time, and probably my favourite thing i got from my uncle.

Phantom Power, well, it's not so much the album, but that era, where i first got to see the hip live, it was just incredible, i really didn't know what to expect from them, but they blew me away. it was a killer set too, consisting mostly of PP and FC material, just how i wanted it. 50mc was the highlight of the set for me personally, and then Blow as their 3rd encore! i was amazed that a band would do 3 encores, i still am actually haha.

Music@Work, again, it's not so much the album but the tour. i won tickets to the show here from the radio and sold them to my friend at school. i slept outside the Sudbury arena and used the $ to buy front rows, and it was well worth my time and effort. Also, seeing as my birthday had just passed, i had some more $ on my hands, so i decided to go out and buy the rest of the hip's catalogue, and really really get into them before i saw them this time. that too was well worth it, because had i not done so, i might not have recognized such rarities as last of the unplucked gems and opiated when they pulled them out (i had to replace UTH because my originaly copy had long since gone missing).

IVL: i'll always associate this one with being on vacation in BC (my first time there), beautiful album, beautiful province, I knew almost immediately upon my arrival that i was home, and that i wanted to eventually live in BC.

IBE: vaccination scar will always remind me of Calgary coming so close to winning the cup, and also, remind me of my cousin's stint in the sanitarium throughout most of last year's playoffs, strange times. the album as a whole though will remind me of seeing them at the bluesfest and the crazy display put on by the Northern Lights afterwards, it was insane, anyone who was there knows what i'm talking about.


*edit* i almost forgot, the best one, Impossibilium was on a mix cd that was playing twhen i lost my virginity.

Thanks all.
Some very nice reading.

Music is so tied to our lives and our memories...good and bad...much like smell evokes primal emotions. Some songs I CRINGE when they come on the box...real perseverance...a reflex physical response...as if the physical action will make the feelings go away.

That is not to say those songs are 'bad' songs...but to say they evoke a response.

Bad music doesn't effect me...I just don't care...I tune it out.

Right now I'm listening to Herbie Hancock's "HeadHunters". In my mind, one of the most brilliant jazz albums ever recorded. And it brings back memories of that time...not only brings them back, but makes them prescient.

I envy those of you who have your memories tied to The Hip.

Nice connections.

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Thanks.

Day For Night reminds me of the first time I got laid, and coincidentally, the guy that got me into the hip was my best friend at the time, but now I hate the cocky bastard. Everytime I listen I am reminded.

LBU is my girlfriend at the time and I, drunk off our asses at Cobo Hall... a memory of a special night!

Road Apples and Up to Here are playing basketball on the driveway, with a buddies older brother who turn a bunch of 13 year olds into hip fans for life...

DFN is my high school hockey team flying into a very snowy Cape Breton Island for a hockey tournement, where all the players that we boarded with were just as nuts about the album as we were

TATHH is playing cards in the high school cafeteria, trying to figure out what Gord's lyrics were actually about, and spending weekends with my girlfriend at our friend's place, listening to only this album for hours while we got drunk, stoned and laid....(good times....)

PP was all about travelling around Ontario with my fiance, camping wherever we ended up, shouting along to all the songs with the windows down....driving with no destination...

M@W was the end of university, looking for a future, drinking too much, and putting my dog down...dogs just trained to sniff, you saw him struggle than he ceased his struggling....

IVL was travelling to Scotland, living there for a year while going to Teacher's college...this was the sound of many drunk canadians all in one room, showing our scottish flatmates what Canadian music and pride is all about....although, it's a good life was the morning after, riding the train or the bus, nursing a hangover and missing my fiance and family who were back home in Canada..

And now there IBE....it's my wife and I decorating our first home, having friends over to "our" place for drinks...driving to North Bay to visit the relatives...and making our first child (due end of March)...not to mention, our babies first concert (JLC, November 27th, the baby kicked my wifes stomach through the entire show, so I'm pretty sure that means he/she was dancing!!!)

cferneyh Wrote:opiated - As soon as I read your "i love you even when, i don't even know i'm doin' it" quote it reminded me of what it always reminds me of - driving north to a buddy's cottage in the summer of 96 with a girl I was crazy about (but she had never shown one ounce of interest in me outside of the dreaded "friendship"). I was playing DFN and she hadn't heard Impossibilium before and when she first heard that line she turned to me and said: "I love you even when I don't even know I'm doin it - that's kinda like us."

------> My reaction was a smooth hock: :jump

I always see that as the turning point in the relationship between my wife and I. :lol:

That's one of the coolest stories I have ever read. Ever. Seriously.

The first album I heard was Road Apples. I was at a party out at a lake in grade 10. I didn't know who they were, but the following year, in grade 11, a guy on my football team lent me the cassette on a long bus trip and I put two and two together. I listened to that tape over and over till I knew every word.

I bought Fully the day it came out, and it reminds me of the year I graduated (93) from high school.

DFN reminds me of a great deal of turmoil that I went through with certain women and broken hearts of all kinds. Very dark album, and sort of makes me feel comfortable with being alone, even though I am lucky enough not to be. I travelled to Australia in 95, and it was a great soundtrack.

(Note: The first day I got there, I checked into a back packers, and as I was checking the place out, I could hear Road Apples playing somewhere. I ran around looking for the source, and found 4 surfers sitting around relaxing. None were Canadian either, they were given the tape by a guy a few months earlier and fell for it. First time I smoked weed, lol.)

Henhouse, was the first time I was dissapointed with an album at first. But after several times through, I got it, and realized the brilliance and maturity that went into it. It reminds me of travelling to Australia
the second time in 97. Springtime gives me the chills. I gave a copy to my friend down there who loved it. He thought ABAC was total poetry. I also gave that origional Road Apples tape to his brother who was very impressed, and made his band listen to it.

I heard Put It Off when I was eating in Boston Pizza the other day, and had to get everyone to stop talking for 3 minutes so we could hear every word.

Phantom reminds me of living on Vancouver Island in 98. Good times. A lot of examining my life and what I wanted came out of that album. Vapor, and Escape remind me of long drives on the highway singing at the top of my lungs. LOL.

The live album is probably one of my most listened to cds of all time. Grace is my favorite song ever live. I know I have put that on every time I give someone a ride anywhere who maybe isn't a Hip fan, just to subliminally expose them to their live qualities.

I didn't buy M@W or IVL, but have returned to the fanbase with the new album. You're Everywhere and Family are the reasons I got sucked back in. It's good to be back. I was not ever an EX-fan, I just sort of stopped buying any cds for a while there. I was dumb enough to forget that the best songs are the ones that have meaning to you, not always the singles.